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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2008
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Reference ID
EGY_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health [Egypt], E-Zanaty and Associates, and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Household has telephone (B_HHPHONE)

Data file: EGY2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 457
End: 457
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
119. Does your household have: Electricity? A radio with cassette recorder? A color television? A black and white television? A video or DVD player? A mobile? A telephone? A personal home computer? A sewing machine? An electric fan? An air conditioner?

ELECTRICITY

YES 1
NO 2

RADIO

YES 1
NO 2

COLOR TV

YES 1
NO 2

BLACK AND WHITE TV

YES 1
NO 2

VIDEO/DVD

YES 1
NO 2

MOBILE TELEPHONE

YES 1
NO 2

NON-MOBILE TELEPHONE

YES 1
NO 2

COMPUTER

YES 1
NO 2

SEWING MACHINE

YES 1
NO 2

ELECTRIC FAN

YES 1
NO 2

AIR CONDITIONER

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
8 Missing
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
HHPHONE (V153) indicates whether the household has a telephone. How the question was worded changed over time. See Comparability. The related variable MOBPHONE covers the household's access to a mobile phone, specifically.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Possessions Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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